Ewing, Jr. Cut

I'm actually okay with this move.

Ewing was a project on a team that isn't in the business of developing projects. Ewing will be better off developing a game elsewhere, maybe Europe.

D'Antoni and Walsh I think have done the kid a favor. The primary job for the Knicks is to thin the existing roster when the opportunities arise. There is a lot of redundancy that needs to be pared before a kid like Ewing would ever have a chance to see the light of day.

Ewing... eh

I'm ambivalent about Ewing coming back to the Knicks. Yeah, its a sentimental gesture and so on, but honestly, Ewing's interference with Donnie Nelson years ago still sticks in my mind as the dumbest basketball judgment in Knicks history (and nobody, I mean nobody in basketball history, has exercised the kind of dumb stuff we've seen here - reader, meet Mr. D'oh-lan).

I'm talking of course of the back-stabbing kind of stuff that happened when Donnie Nelson tried to run the offense through Anthony Mason and Ewing balked.

On the other hand, and this is purely wishful thinking, if Ewing would take Curry out to the MSG woodshed and get Curry's sad ass in shape maybe bringing back an old warhorse would be worth it.

Ouch!

Charley Rosen on Patrick Ewing's coaching;

Educational experience
One of Stan Van Gundy's first moves in Orlando was to bring in Patrick Ewing as assistant coach in charge of Dwight Howard's education. Based on his playing career, and after doing little to improve Yao Ming, Ewing certainly has plenty to teach young Howard:

# How to avoid passing.
# How not to play defense.
# Why it's more advisable to take fadeaway jumpers than to attack the basket.
# The theory and practice of the Georgetown Gallop.
# The art of missing clutch shots, especially from the foul line.